Book reviews & analyses
Giving sex an easy place in my mind, required moving around the furniture inside my head – old traumas, inherited shame, cultural taboos. This book taught me flying.
Finding poetry & gentleness in an angry post COVID world. I found dignity in an autorickshaw driver. And a poem.
I did not expect to find feminist meaning in a book about Shah Rukh Khan.
I wonder if we fall a little too much in love with stories, especially ones we write ourselves. It’s a fallacy to call this love because this is an uncontrollable, desperate, choking stranglehold that is not loving, nurturing or caring. Love is not blind; it makes our vision clearer, if…
He writes of the isolation of chasing material dreams. I saw exquisite poetry laced with slivers of pain.
I came across Kiran Nagarakar’s work in some serendipitous ways. My opinion of his life is checkered but it consistently upholds dignity.
